Cole Karow, somewhere at Lost Trail Powder Mountain in Montana.
First of all, sike! Riding powder does not suck at all. It’s pretty much the best way you could spend a day snowboarding or otherwise. But since we’re stuck on the snowless East Coast while our friends are gloating over getting shacked as fuck on social media, we need some reminders of why it’s not totally the end of the world to miss out. If you’re in a similar boat, read on for our list of the minor inconveniences and annoyances that come along with riding powder.
1. You could die. This is a very real factor in the powder game. Whether an avalanche or a tree well- low visibility, high stoke and variable conditions can have dire consequences. Be careful out there, friends.
2. Shoveling sucks. If the trails are buried that means your car is probably buried too. Even worse, you may have to dig yourself a path just to get to it. Fuck that noise.
3. It’s Exhausting. No matter what sweet pow board you’ve got or how good of shape you’re in, riding pow requires effort and strength. And how will you get anything else done in a day when you have exerted every last bit of energy lapping pillow lines!?
4. You have to get up early. If you want best stuff, you gotta get there when the lifts start to spin. We firmly believe getting up early should be reserved for farmers and school children, and is not part of any activity considered “fun.”
5. You may have to hike. Inevitably “the goods” are not lift accessed. And your friends will probably be like “oh come on, it’s not that far and it’ll be sick” and pretty soon you’ll be trudging through waist deep snow in search of some line you don’t even really care about riding. And then you’ll have even less energy to boot!
6. Aggro pow hounds. You know the guy. He has his schedule set so he can drop everything at the rumor of 6 inches or more. His Gortex is still shiny and he’s liable to poke your eye out with his pow shape because he’s frothing so heard he just can’t control himself in the lift line. Yeah, fuck that guy.
7. Your friends will ditch you. Well, only if you suck, so disregard this one if you’re remotely fun to ride with.
8. You get wet/cold. All your shit is now soaking wet and if you lazily leave it in a pile in the trunk of your car you will not only have mold/odor issues, but your next day trying to ride is a total bust. You’re way too lazy for that nonsense.
9. It makes your face hurt. Even if you don’t have a beard to get frozen into an ice mass, your cheeks ache seriously at the end of the day. Pain from pleasure? Uhg, fuck that.
WITH skiers rocking 1 snowboard on each foot these days ,they track up the pow as good or quicker than boarders …sure it looks + feels DORKY , but its still tracking the shit out of it .
skiers ruin everything, we need a resort for snowboarders only
SKIERS have more plank on snow than %98 of the boarders and are passing them in pow ….. pow is jut pow don’t cry
CLIMATE CHANGE / man up , ride park …. no brainer
snow bikes are messing up the pow at a record rate
POW SLOWS DOWN THE PARK RAILLINE …POW BLOWS
pow is for DINOS with sore everything ….
pow is the DINO CIRCUS …POW SUCKS
pow is for MASSHOLES lined up at 7:30 , watch the ski patrol do laps for 1 1/2 hours . BE A GOOD BOY . KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT . BE PATIENT …. HAAAA
Love how most peoples’ reason for hating POW is their own spoiled laziness. Basically if you can’t fall out of bed into your boots and be ripping down fresh pow with zero tracks and zero other people then it’s not good enough and you’d rather do what? Sit in an line an watch other people hit a rail, then do the same thing they just did, and high five each other about the fact that you found a way to have a little bit of fun while staying lazy? Then walk back up 15 feet and do the same thing again all day? Sounds sooo much better.
POW RIDERS ARE SHEEP . GET IN THE LONGEST LINE . THATS WHERE YOUL GET THE “GOODS”
POW IS BETTER THAN SEX . KOOK
pow rules…all I want is 5 or 6 cobra dogs a super wide ride and some TASTY POW . EASY IS GOOD
POW IS THE BEST [ NOTHING IS EVER TO EASY , NOTHING IS EVER TO FUN ] WORD !
I don’t know why it SUCKS , BUT IT REALLY SUC KS .
POWDER SKING /BOARDING IS INSANE IF YOU CAN GET TO POWDER MOUNTAIN IN NOR. UTAH …CHEEP-DEEP-FUN-ALL TIME GOOD TIMES ..
DO——-IT !
NO SHIT POWMOW IS #1 IN U.S.A !
NO SHIT POWDER MTN …UTAH IS THE BEST IN AMERICA FOR POWDER ……..AND THEY HAVE THE BEST SUMMER BIKE PARK IN THE STATE …..GET SOME SON
pow is for pussies —— so is Frisbee hacky-sack and strip clubs ….
POWMOW UTAH IS THE BEST . CHEEP AS HELL FRESH FOR WEEKS NOT DAYS OR HOURS …….[ DID I SAY CHEEP ]
#8 “ALL YOUR SHIT GETS WET ” HAAAAA……NO, WRONG …THATS ONLY IN PAC NOR WEST … POW RULES
SHUT THE FU#K UP …POW IS MANA FROM HEVEN …
NO KOOK icy moguls suck
PU SUCKS …THE only pow I want is gold bond for the chafing I get from these lame ass comments…
STOKED that J Jones / JP WALKER COULD SHRED WITH US AT POWDER MOUNTAIN UTAH TODAY … POW IS FOR PROS ..
SOOO stoked to see JONES / RICHARDS / JP WALKER AT POW MOW TODAY….POW RULES
no shit pow mow Utah POWDERMOUNTAIN.COM HAS THE PROS FILMIN /SHREDIN ALL THE TIME … such a fun place to ride pow ! [ DONT TELL ANYBODY ] !! HAAA
POW RULES , RICH PEOPLE DONT PLOW THERE OWN DRIVEWAY
HOT LAPS . HOT BITCHES + COBRA DOGS IN SPRING PARK CONDITIONS ….WAY MO BETA THAN -20 WHITEOUT POW SAFARIES ..
I AM 78 and rip pow all day . ITS GOOD FOR MY SEX DRIVE .
30 = TO OLD FOR PARK ? 87 = TO OLD FOR POW ….. BULL SHIT ,NEVER TO OLD FOR POW.
REALLY kook , ever seen a 80 yr old drop a 75 ft cliff . FUCK U . I CAN DROP A 75 FT CLIFF ..
First off, All of these comments suck…
Second. This article sounds like it was written by the person at the end of the boot pack, about half a mile behind everyone else, complaining about their boots or some other bullshit no one actually cares about. A snapchat story is also created to assure their friends that they are indeed “legit”.
POW SUCKS BECAUSE ; CLIMATE WIERDNESS HAS MADE THE BACKCOUNTRY INSANLEY DANGEROUS … IN UTAH PATROLERS AND “PROS” ARE GETTING FULLY BURRIED ON A DAILEY BASIS …
i hate skiiers and their stupid need to turn pow into icy moguls skiing should be outlawed